Thomas Shaw c 1717
Folkestone
Express 1-3-1890
Extract from an article entitled Old and New Cheriton:
Ten years ago Cheriton Street consisted of a few
cottages close to the Village Hall, which now look very mean beside the rows of
cottages which have sprung up with mushroom-like rapidity.
Between these humble abodes and the public house known
as the Red Lion there were only about half a dozen insignificant cottages, and
of course, with the swelling population, the value of this one house has risen
from hundreds to something in the four figure way, and must increase,
remembering that magistrates are so chary about granting new licenses.
Folkestone
Express 24-2-1894
Local News
A dinner was held at the Red Lion, Cheriton, on
Wednesday evening last, in connection with the Cheriton Benefit Society, when
about forty sat down to an excellent repast. Dr. Powell took the chair, and a
very pleasant evening was spent.
Note: This appears to have taken place many
years after the Red Lion in Cheriton had been renamed the White Lion?
Folkestone Herald
17-7-1897
Local News
An inquest was held last Saturday evening at the Red Lion
Inn, Cheriton, by the East Kent Coroner, touching the death of a painter named
Morfew, of Cheriton, who was killed on the railway beyond Cheriton on the
previous morning, as announced in the last issue of the Herald.
P.C. Drury gave evidence as to finding the body at 4.15
a.m., lying on the stomach in the four foot way, with the head, which was
smashed, on the line.
The driver of the train, which was supposed to pass the spot
at 2 a.m., also gave evidence.
The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily
insane.
Note: Is this another wrong
reference to the White Lion?
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